This is just sad.

I was trying to think of prequels that actually do more than provide fan service and man, it's a short list. FIRE WALK WITH ME is top of mine.

Rereleasing THERE'S A MONSTER AT THE END OF THIS BOOK but the final page is just a mirror.

Sent home from work due to this cold that all of Melbourne seems to have right now. (I blame the Mountain Goats on Friday night.)

I am not to be trifled (sponge, jelly, custard) with!

It is not without its charms!

Winced at Liz telling Jack on 30 ROCK: "Don't let them peer pressure you into invading Iran!"

I get to the airport so early humans haven't invented flight.

A little on the nose that THE LAST BOY SCOUT actually has someone say "you don't like women very much, do you?"

My version of "I wish Jesus was real to tell off evangelicals" is "I wish Spider-Man was real to fight corporate greed".

I have a piece about to come out about exactly this: how we digest heroic stories of resistance when they're being produced by evil corporations.

Marvel Studios Surprisingly Leaving Key Location After Many Years For Major Reasons The Fantastic Four was largely filmed in UK.

With great power comes great responsibility not to pay for employee health care!

I don't remember much about DONNIE DARKO, really, but I do remember thinking it captured that specific "teenage boy riding around pointlessly for hours" feeling.

My signature scent is REGRET. The tagline is YOU'LL REGRET EVERYTHING... BUT THIS.

When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”

It's also why the second half of horror is always less frightening, right? Too many rules!

"What are the rules of the world?" is usually good to know, but when it comes to horror, I don't really care. Rules are comforting! Horror can break them!

People are like "what about the morale of our troops?!" and I'm like "dude, it was the troops who turned him in!"

Ben Roberts-Smith’s comrades say he ordered them to execute unarmed civilians, court documents show Former SAS corporal allegedly placed man on his knees and ordered fellow soldier to shoot him, according to statement of facts

As conservative politicians fall over themselves to defend Ben Roberts-Smith, it's worth remembering that it was his *own men* who raised the alarm about him being a full-tilt psycho.

I read this gag to my partner and she sang "being dumb on the internet" at me.

A black and white photo of Boris Karloff, shirtless, in full Frankenstein's monster makeup, drinking a cup of tea.

Love this photo of Karloff relaxing during FRANKENSTEIN. "Why don't you put down the torches and pitchforks and have a nice cup of tea?"

Just as the Beatles' 'Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds' is about LSD, the Velvet Underground's 'Heroin' is about heroin.

This also talks about how we need more friction in the decision-making process, not less. That's where wisdom comes from.

From hell's heart I give thee a cheeky wave!

To gaze upon the Alphabetical Clock is to go mad.

boat.horse/clock/index....

This is from way back in 2011 and has some stylistic quirks I kinda hate now – but I still think it's an interesting thought experiment!

How Project Maven Put A.I. Into the Kill Chain A new book charts the creation of a secretive system that automates warfare for the military. The progression from target identification to target destruction is four clicks.

"...in the years before the First World War, one contemporaneous observer wondered if the mass-produced rifle would lead to such unfathomable carnage that no commander in his right mind would be willing to risk combat."

For Superman Day, an old piece of mine: what if Superman could renounce his corporate ownership? martynpedler.com/superman-for...

Proof that I can write an ALF joke so unfunny that even Bluesky won't like it!